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Esotericists, Science of Mind, Unity & New Thought Christians read this!, April 9, 2008
Atheism is a biased ideology worse than fundamentalism, calls everyone but its adherents deluded imbeciles, please keep it away from my kids. But now agnosticism and skepticism...they warrant our attention since they afflict all reasonable humans from time to time.
I am an esoteric Christian believer and although this book doesn't have any esoterica in it, no Mary Magdalene, no alternative Christianity, it DOES give you all the tools you will ever need to argue that the Divine (aka God) does indeed exist, and Jesus aka Yeshua, wasn't "just a legend". I studied philosophy at University, how to argue the existence of God, etc. and this book brought it all back. I can be the armchair Philosopher that I am again. Whew. Reading the easy to understand arguments helped me solidify my own (alternative) beliefs. Okay, Dinesh probably does not believe in the Divine Feminine, nor does he put Magdalene as the First Lady of Christianity, but he does help me answer all the Christian-bashers of my acquaintance, be they secular Europeans who have "outgrown" belief in god, be they new agers, neo-pagans, or Wiccans. I can tell them much more eloquently now that Christianity is NOT the source of all modern evils, and in fact is the CAUSE of Western Civilization as opposed to 3rd world living, which we'd have if our ancestors hadn't chosen to believe as they did. Christianity invented women's rights, feminism, women-having-souls, and science. The Church (even tho Catholicism is half-whacked) supported and expanded intellectual debate, democracy, the concept of individual worth, and human rights. Dinesh D. notes perceptively that Science never developed in China -- only in Europe under Christian incubation. Yes, Science was created smack dab in Christianity where all the funding was and all the bright minds of the world hung out. Europe would never have advanced to the levels it did without your Grandma's Judeo-Christianity. So get off the oh-how-vile-we-are bandwagon and help straighten up the revisionist self-loathers in your life.
Now if only Dinesh had covered the Problem of Evil aka Theodicy more fully. He does give it one chapter at the end of the book wherein he hits the highpoints of the argument from evil and its refutation, but alas... I crave more debating tools from Dinesh's straightforward easy to comprehend arsenal. The presence of suffering and evil in the world, in our everyday lives, is the number one fact that causes my occasional agnostic fits. (God must not exist or he wouldn't let that poor little 2 year old girl I just met die painfully of cancer... That tornado snatched a baby from its father's arms, what's up with that??) Get to work, please D'Souza. <grin>
Thank you for arguing God into existence for me and providing me with convincing tidbits not only for my combative christian-bashing acquaintances but for myself in my doubting/agnostic moments. I love philosopher Peter Kreeft's prayer of the skeptic given word for word in this book...
Just please don't ever focus your debating lens on the Judeo-Christian Islamic Sufi Goddess (Sophia, Mother Mary, Shekinah, Allat, Fatima, Magdalene) and argue Her out of existence! I will just have to cry. Yeah, I know I'm a quack, and probably not the kind of fan you would like to have(!). But at least you have now been informed of the wide appeal of your extremely useful and valid book, which I have dutifully promoted around the various forums I moderate, to my online students, and of course blogged about.
Read this book and make your Grandparents / parents proud when they hear you rattling off the awesome evidence, both scientific and metaphysical, that the Divine Designer is out there and in here. Wow 'em with the truth about Christianity having been naturally selected for survival. Judeo-Christianity is way cool and not to be ashamed of.
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 What's So Great About Christianity 1596985178
Dinesh D'Souza
Regnery Press
What's So Great About Christianity
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Esotericists, Science of Mind, Unity & New Thought Christians read this!
Atheism is a biased ideology worse than fundamentalism, calls everyone but its adherents deluded imbeciles, please keep it away from my kids. But now agnosticism and skepticism...they warrant our attention since they afflict all reasonable humans from time to time.
I am an esoteric Christian believer and although this book doesn't have any esoterica in it, no Mary Magdalene, no alternative Christianity, it DOES give you all the tools you will ever need to argue that the Divine (aka God) does indeed exist, and Jesus aka Yeshua, wasn't "just a legend". I studied philosophy at University, how to argue the existence of God, etc. and this book brought it all back. I can be the armchair Philosopher that I am again. Whew. Reading the easy to understand arguments helped me solidify my own (alternative) beliefs. Okay, Dinesh probably does not believe in the Divine Feminine, nor does he put Magdalene as the First Lady of Christianity, but he does help me answer all the Christian-bashers of my acquaintance, be they secular Europeans who have "outgrown" belief in god, be they new agers, neo-pagans, or Wiccans. I can tell them much more eloquently now that Christianity is NOT the source of all modern evils, and in fact is the CAUSE of Western Civilization as opposed to 3rd world living, which we'd have if our ancestors hadn't chosen to believe as they did. Christianity invented women's rights, feminism, women-having-souls, and science. The Church (even tho Catholicism is half-whacked) supported and expanded intellectual debate, democracy, the concept of individual worth, and human rights. Dinesh D. notes perceptively that Science never developed in China -- only in Europe under Christian incubation. Yes, Science was created smack dab in Christianity where all the funding was and all the bright minds of the world hung out. Europe would never have advanced to the levels it did without your Grandma's Judeo-Christianity. So get off the oh-how-vile-we-are bandwagon and help straighten up the revisionist self-loathers in your life.
Now if only Dinesh had covered the Problem of Evil aka Theodicy more fully. He does give it one chapter at the end of the book wherein he hits the highpoints of the argument from evil and its refutation, but alas... I crave more debating tools from Dinesh's straightforward easy to comprehend arsenal. The presence of suffering and evil in the world, in our everyday lives, is the number one fact that causes my occasional agnostic fits. (God must not exist or he wouldn't let that poor little 2 year old girl I just met die painfully of cancer... That tornado snatched a baby from its father's arms, what's up with that??) Get to work, please D'Souza. <grin>
Thank you for arguing God into existence for me and providing me with convincing tidbits not only for my combative christian-bashing acquaintances but for myself in my doubting/agnostic moments. I love philosopher Peter Kreeft's prayer of the skeptic given word for word in this book...
Just please don't ever focus your debating lens on the Judeo-Christian Islamic Sufi Goddess (Sophia, Mother Mary, Shekinah, Allat, Fatima, Magdalene) and argue Her out of existence! I will just have to cry. Yeah, I know I'm a quack, and probably not the kind of fan you would like to have(!). But at least you have now been informed of the wide appeal of your extremely useful and valid book, which I have dutifully promoted around the various forums I moderate, to my online students, and of course blogged about.
Read this book and make your Grandparents / parents proud when they hear you rattling off the awesome evidence, both scientific and metaphysical, that the Divine Designer is out there and in here. Wow 'em with the truth about Christianity having been naturally selected for survival. Judeo-Christianity is way cool and not to be ashamed of.
Katia Romanoff "Esoteric Mystery School"
April 9, 2008
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